I've been away for a while so maybe I missed something- is the fanart down, restricted access or somesuch? I keep getting errors when I go to it.

Fanart has been disabled.

See this thread for more information.

Some people just couldn't play nice. Thankfully, though, Avatars are back.

Thanks, I've definately been out of the loop for a while. :P

That makes me very sad... I very much was lookin forward to seeing what had built up in the 2+ years since I was last here.

Well, glad to hear about the avatars, and that they're not deleted, just hidden. Here's to hoping a safe way to get them up can be found!

*Ponders* I'm sure the admin have probably thought all of this over, but is there no reason a few people couldn't screen it instead of just letting users post it directly? Just curious, I've been very out of the loop but would love to see 'em back eventually. :)

I know several options were floated about at the time this all went down, and honestly i don't remember the reasoning behind not having them screened (probably manpower, but it might be technical). Rit would have to address that.

However as far as avatars, just load yours somewhere and link to it and you'll have that again. Check out the avatar info in Important Threads, i think we had a guy recently offer posting space if needed.